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When conflict-avoidant people create more conflict by avoiding

My college roommate and I have lived together for two years and we're both conflict-avoidant people, which worked great until it didn't, and now we're in this weird passive-aggressive dance where we're both annoyed but neither of us will say what's actually wrong.

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